What to say about week seven. To start off, I need to stop joking that graphic design is my passion because I’ve been graphic designing all week and it definitely is not. Well, maybe it’ll turn out to be delayed gratification because when my poster is finally finished I think I will feel very relieved and accomplished and I’ll go right back to telling people that I was born to make posters. So as you might have guessed this week was mainly spent creating figures out of my data and crafting my poster. I thought of a few interesting ways to model my data but I’m not sure which graphs will make the final cut. For one, I decided to graph the abundance of kelp in each video across a spatiotemporal axis. Which is a fancy way of saying time and space. The X-axis of the graph is the length of a single video in seconds, the Y-axis is the percentage of kelp present in the video. This way, the viewer can visualize what percentage of kelp appeared in certain segments of a video. The reason I decided to format the figure this way is because I think the density estimates as a single number, abundance per meter squared, is confusing. The value 1.7 bull kelp per square meter doesn’t tell you that 80% of the kelp in the video is concentrated in a six second segment and, in turn, a similarly small physical distance. In the same vein of analysis, I decided to calculate the percentage of each transect that is bare seafloor because I like the way those values contextualize the cold, unfeeling, density estimates in their raw form. On the personal side of things, last week was the invertebrate ball! Flynn and I decided at the very last moment to try and transform into comb jellies. To do so we wrapped blue metallic streamers around our arms and fluorescent blue fairy lights around our legs. I was a little concerned our costumes would fall apart while we were on the catwalk but everything worked out. So many people put so much inspiring effort into their costumes I was very impressed, it made me feel better about my own haphazard attempt. I like the community here because of experiences like that. I still can’t believe we only have two weeks left, I’ll try again next week.
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AuthorHello! My name is Catalina, welcome to my blog! I am a rising Junior at NYU pursuing a degree in Biology and I'm from Sunnyvale, California. This summer I am working in Dr. Aaron Galloway's Coastal Trophic Ecology (CTE) lab developing video survey methodology applied to kelp forest monitoring. Thanks for reading! Archives
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